US President Donald Trump has pardoned four Blackwater military contractors who were given lengthy prison sentences for killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, in 2007. Trump's pardon absolves them of their crimes and the killers can walk free again.
The four guards – Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Nicholas Slatten – were part of an armoured convoy that opened fire indiscriminately with machine-guns, grenade launchers and a sniper on a crowd of unarmed people in a square in the Iraqi capital.
One man who initiated the massacre using sniper fire was serving life in prison with the other three serving 30 years each.
TODAY TRUMP PARDONED HIS KILLERS
Ali was sitting in the back seat of his father's SUV with two of his cousins. Blackwater riddled the car with bullets. Ali's father was driving. When the shooting stopped they thought they had experienced a miracle that they were safe.
One of Ali's cousins said that Ali had been shot. His father opened the door after seeing blood on the window - and Ali's brain fell out onto the pavement between his father's feet.
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